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Sphaerotholus goodwini

Reptilia - Pachycephalosauridae

Taxonomy
Sphaerotholus goodwini was named by Williamson and Carr (2003). It is not extant. Its type specimen is NMMNH P-27403. Its type locality is Willow Wash, NMMNH Loc. L-3921, which is in a Campanian terrestrial horizon in the Kirtland Formation of New Mexico.

It was recombined as Prenocephale goodwini by Sullivan and Lucas (2003), Sullivan (2003), Sullivan et al. (2005), Sullivan (2006), Sullivan and Lucas (2006), Schott et al. (2009), Watabe et al. (2011) and Jasinski and Sullivan (2011).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2003Prenocephale goodwini Sullivan p. 197
2003Prenocephale goodwini Sullivan and Lucas p. 102A
2003Sphaerotholus goodwini Williamson and Carr figs. 1-6
2004Sphaerotholus goodwini Maryanska et al. p. 465
2005Prenocephale goodwini Sullivan et al. p. 398
2006Prenocephale goodwini Sullivan p. 355
2006Prenocephale goodwini Sullivan and Lucas p. 329
2009Prenocephale goodwini Schott et al. p. 783 fig. 8
2010Sphaerotholus goodwini Longrich et al. p. 279
2011Prenocephale goodwini Jasinski and Sullivan p. 207
2011Prenocephale goodwini Watabe et al. p. 494
2015Sphaerotholus goodwini Jasinski p. 79
2017Sphaerotholus goodwini Schott and Evans p. 867
2018Sphaerotholus goodwini Evans et al. p. 124
2021Sphaerotholus goodwini Woodruff et al. p. 592

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
RankNameAuthor
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Ornithischia()
Genasauria
Cerapoda
Marginocephalia
Pachycephalosauria()
familyPachycephalosauridae
subfamilyPachycephalosaurinae
genusSphaerotholus
speciesgoodwini

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Sphaerotholus goodwini Williamson and Carr 2003
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: gregariouso
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: herbivoreo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2004-12-14 12:50:52
Modified: 2004-12-14 14:50:52
Source: o = order
Reference: Marsh 1875

Age range: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.50000 to 70.60000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6USA (New Mexico) Pachycephalosauria indet. (type locality: 53515)